HR Sourcing & Category Manager

Whippany, United States

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Date live: Oct. 11, 2022

Business Area: COO & Functions

Area of Expertise: Sourcing/Procurement

Reference Code: 90273738

Contract: Permanent/Regular

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HR Sourcing & Category Manager
Whippany, NJ

As a Barclays HR Sourcing and Category Manager, you will be a senior sourcing manager within the Corporate Operations and Professional Services (COPS) Team within Procurement. You will use your expertise to shape and execute Category plans and deals within COPS with the prime focus on HR Services. Your team will be directly responsible for managing commercial deals in excess of £750M annually and are required to work collaboratively and strategically.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality and innovation behind us. We've helped millions of individuals and businesses thrive, creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted. An important and growing presence in the USA, we offer careers providing endless opportunity.

What will you be doing?

•   Being responsible for the category planning, and delivery of deals primarily for indirect sub-categories within the HR Services category with third parties
•   Managing sourcing events including RFX, commercial negotiations with relevant suppliers, and partner as appropriate with the legal support teams
•   Overseeing key process activities across the sourcing team ensuring adherence to all control, risk and governance processes
•   Ensuring Management Assurance results with high degree of compliance, and all project documentation is kept current with a high degree of accuracy
•   Maintaining currency and compliance in all required policy, tools and systems training
•   Building and maintaining a strong operational and strategic network with other Sourcing colleagues to improve sourcing processes and capability
•   Working under pressure and multi-task to support a number of concurrent deals with multiple sourcing managers, stakeholders, contract managers and suppliers
•   Working with stakeholders to agree short and longer term strategy to optimize supplier costs whilst and enable the business to maintain appropriate service levels and minimize risk

What we’re looking for:

•   Extensive experience in procurement (experience within the financial services sector is desirable, but not essential)
•   Knowledge and experience of specific market and key vendors on a global basis within the HR category
•   Great contract negotiation skills, the relevant Category experience, strong networking and stakeholder management skills
•   Detailed knowledge of appropriate commercial models and approaches/ techniques necessary to achieve best in class deals

Skills that will help you in the role:

•   Experience dealing with multiple senior stakeholders
•   Project Management and execution, including collaborative stakeholder management
•   Excellent people management skills
•   Practical training in a reputable blue chip or consulting approach to procurement/ category management and process design

Where will you be working?

At Barclays, we are proud to be redefining the future of finance and here at Whippany we are defining the future of the workplace and the future of the way we work and live. We are creating a unique community, one of four strategic tech-enabled hubs that will redefine opportunity for everyone who works here. Whatever you do at Whippany, you’ll have every chance to build a world-class career in this world-class environment.

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